Short Covetous Poems

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Memory - a Ninette

Red.
Burning.
Covetous.
Neurons on fire.
You are the one thing.
The many things.
I let go.
But not.
Yet

- maria
10.12.15
Form: Ninette


My Love

I love you
Like the sunset.
My covetous eyes 
Want you.
My soul freely escorts you
To where you need to shine.

- maria
5.5.16
Form: Verse

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covetous chipmunk,
turgid sunflower seeds;
where are the dry ones hidden!!!??

                             Carol Mahan

My Mission

I strive to become great and not to be poor,
so when the needy comes I would open my door,
and bring corrupt and covetous fellows to the floor.

Dark Dawn

Dawn hopeful, expectant tantalizing, exhilarating, inviting friends, citizens, government, politicians inciting, embezzling, dictating greedy, covetous Darkness
Form: Diamante


Fat Cats and Lawyers

Sharp Suited Sharks 
Feeding
Fervently Feasting, Foul Fiends 
Covetous Cuthroats, Cultured Convicts Convincing
Innocents Inked In Immensely Incurred Interests, 
Indebted
Enslaved, Effaced Emotions, Exasperated

Heavenly Sham

With every religion…
to share in the blame

Masking out God,
in costumes of shame

Seeking to own
what they can’t understand

A covetous folly
—a heavenly sham

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2019)
Form: Rhyme

The Inferno Within

He begets the inferno within
Such impediments
To one's own happiness
Covetous in his own disguise 
A condemnation to misery
Constrained to emotional infantilism 
All forlorn and empty
He can't attain anything 
Other than froth....
Form: Concrete

Envy Sits Alone

Death in comparison,
  a covetous dispatch

Jealousy reflected,
  its courtiers attack

An emperor left naked,
  his crown a vacant throne

Jesters flee the castle
   —as envy sits alone

(Villanova Pennsylvania: December, 2016)
Form: Rhyme

Covetous in his own disguise


He begets the inferno within
Such impediment to one's 
own happiness
Covetous in his own disguise
A condemnation to misery
Constrained to emotional infantilism
All forlorn and empty
He can't attain anything 
other than froth…
Form: Concrete

Thou Shalt Not

The world is not driven by greed
it’s driven by envy …
Commandment 10 is carved in stone
positioned at the end
Where old injunctions miss their mark
a covetous reminder
Desirous of another’s place
—the devil painted green

(Dreamsleep: March, 2023)

One Percent

Look into the eyes of the suffering 
For a moment open your soul to 
The riches of you covetous love
Keep you blind from the future
And the loss of your vitality

Be wary of the truths 
Unknown to those who create the illusion of comfort
For no man can understand fulfill love
At the sacrifice of another being
Form: Lyric

Jealousy

My covetous nature 
Has left you in a state of perturbation
Betraying my diffident manner
As if I have been possessed
Maybe I am
For what agitates you
Torments me endlessly
Like a ghostly presence roaming the earth 
In search of peace
I will never find it
Because jealousy is my master
That rules over me

Honeybee's Die

Are you rapacious with your poetry,
avaricious in your verse

Covetous of those words you read,
jealous—maybe worse

Do your thoughts deceive with what you write,
does bad intention rule the day

Those tracks you leave, the trap you’ve set
—with you the final prey

(Villanova Pennsylvania: August, 2020)
Form: Rhyme

Hypocrisy

The sanctimonious tabernacle; where the desolated tongues confess.
The covetous, unwed beds are hungry, exuberant anatomies get undressed.
The biased courthouse; where many admissible lies rattle but hardly unfold.
The lewd jail cells are full, innocent bodies, minds, and souls loathly probed.








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How See You

There are two sides to a coin

First toss

Masterful
Ingenious
Decisive
Discerning 
Liberal
Enterprising

Cautious
Lithe
Astute
Suave
Sensitive

Time to flip to the other side 

Muted
Insular
Disdainful
Dubious
Lacking
Envious

Covetous
Lumbering
Artful
Selfish
Shallow

It all depends on how you view it

Premium Member torrid me

.
ahhh mine roily think's 
       with covetous 
          to            caress
            tenderly
            to      'to
              latch 
         yourn both
   sensate haunchez
                 to
         pull       taut
              yourn
             'to mine ready kiss 
                                       lock
Form: Burlesque

Premium Member Verdurous thy view

How am I so wounded by you?
Arrows never shoot, but run me through
Beautiful viper poisoning; stares straight, not a skew
I'm glad to be seen by their bite; I'll be its anti-venom, too
Covetous my own thoughts of envy; verdurous thy view
They're green and ravenous, but see me in a form so true
Eyes that sing a siren song; control my affection they do!
Form: Monorhyme

Loneliness

Hiding in a lake of tears
lie the dreams of those
whose pale, wan faces
are reflected 
in its subtle waters.

On moonlit nights,
when covetous thoughts
weave a silent web of fear
love songs are empty 
to the solitary ear.

Uncanny, the billowing shadows
that haunt the souls 
of the lost and lonely
whose tears go unnoticed
who surrender to the void.
Form:

Premium Member Desire and Obsession

desire

                            covetous, thirsty

                 arousing, enticing, pursuing

eagerness, ambition, madness, preoccupation

                stalking, fixating, concerning

                      complex, pathological

                                obsession



Date written: 04/30/2023
Form: Diamante

Century of Shame

When the birds are spilling down from the sky 
And all the ocean dwellers are floating 
Human carelessness and greed will be why
It's the environment we are choking 
Everyday we continue provoking 
Raping the the planet that keeps us alive
Damage is massive and trivialized
There's no species as covetous as us
A century of shame we symbolize 
Always wanting more, it's never enough
Form: Dizain

Premium Member Covetous

Is it a crime
To pry apart rhyme
Stitch lines, unhitched
From native consequence

To warily marry
Unmetered time
By forced remorse
Unrehearsed
In patchwork verse

In my malaise
My daydreams ablaze
I long for eloquence...

     to drip, untripped

From my lips


The devil rides
my prideful hide
Chastise with whip and spur
Damning the span 
Between who I am
And who I wish I were.

3/6/20
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Confession

In the heart’s tunnel lurks a murderer* conspiring as friend with human nature enraged by hatred… midst bitterness covetous angst and greedy wrath the slayer prowls... devouring smiting foe---- killer screams… “guilty--- I am… Lord!”
*Mark 7:21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders. February 1, 2021

Growing Pains

Woman plucked from her golden roots
Blown to the wind,
limbs carried like petals
Delicately, she flutters through
Admired by each who tries to catch her
with covetous hands
The tempest gust rips through her veins, spitting her out to treacherous terrain
She waits for the sun, 
 giving out to the storm
Nigh to final form,
She watches the rain
water where she once stood tall
Now withered and bruised,
Woman weeps

Jigsaw

The brain is inept at trying to divine

   the creative fantasies of a noble,

           at times, scheming 

                     mind,


much less probe, from end to start,

      the crimson contours of a 

    generous, at times, covetous 

                     heart.


  We can't fully know you and me;

   like jigsaw pieces, let us seem,

          at times, let us really 

                       be!
Form: Rhyme

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